Patching Retro games to work on linux?

[M0dulo]

I have a disk copy of Stonekeep by interplay, and MDK. I tried making them work on windows 10 and havent touched them since. Now I'm getting ready to switch to linux soon and I decided I want to try again with making these games work and hopefully backing them up. Does anyone know how I can go about doing that?

[grzegorz77]

Originally posted by M0dulo:

Patching Retro games to work on linux?

I have a disk copy of Stonekeep by interplay, and MDK. I tried making them work on windows 10 and havent touched them since. Now I'm getting ready to switch to linux soon and I decided I want to try again with making these games work and hopefully backing them up. Does anyone know how I can go about doing that?

I don't know what you want to do, but the games should just work.

https://www.protondb.com/app/38450
https://www.protondb.com/app/613240

Install mint, install steam using the apt command, enjoy the games.

[M0dulo]

Originally posted by grzegorz77:

Originally posted by M0dulo:

Patching Retro games to work on linux?

I have a disk copy of Stonekeep by interplay, and MDK. I tried making them work on windows 10 and havent touched them since. Now I'm getting ready to switch to linux soon and I decided I want to try again with making these games work and hopefully backing them up. Does anyone know how I can go about doing that?

I don't know what you want to do, but the games should just work.

https://www.protondb.com/app/38450
https://www.protondb.com/app/613240

huh.......I was expecting to have to do some patching and other stuff like I did for win10 because theyre older games. I'll try popping them into a disk drive on linux and update the thread later.

[M0dulo]

Originally posted by Xenophobe:

Is this a cd/dvd copy of Stonekeep or the steam version? The steam version has a dosbox setup builtin the download ... I purchased the steam version for nostalgia's sake since I couldn't get the cd/dvd copy to work in dosbox with a controller ... and even then I had to create a separate steam desktop controller config for the game and switch to that to play the game and back to the regular one to use steam after.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/613240/Stonekeep/

These are Cd/DVD copies of both games. I am aware both games are on steam but I was hoping to get the disk versions I already have to work but It seems it might be easier to just take the L and buy the steam versions

[Thiesen]

I have Dungeon Siege which is a game from 2002 and it works perfectly under Proton 9.0-3 on Linux Mint...

Older Steam games works BETTER under Linux than they do under Windows,,,

[Ratconned]

@Xenophobe aside, many others' comments seem related to the digital versions and not the physical disk copies mentioned.

Backing them up… I'm unsure but as long as DRM can be dealt with, I'm guessing you could move the files to your drives and then use dosbox to play them? You could always look up guides and from an internet search and try it, though you may face issues as a new user. Then again there's the option to buy the digital version as you mentioned.

Getting them to work might be possible. If you did it on windows, my suggestion is to use the same steps, and try to find repository/open source alternatives to the software you used in the process back then. If those exist you'll probably be able to get it to work in the same way. Then you can either use dosbox or one of its forks or use retroarch or even the windows one with proton if you have to.

Though I want to confirm, you did get it working on windows successfully right? Because you mentioned that you tried.

[M0dulo]

Originally posted by Ratconned:

@Xenophobe aside, many others' comments seem related to the digital versions and not the physical disk copies mentioned.

Backing them up… I'm unsure but as long as DRM can be dealt with, I'm guessing you could move the files to your drives and then use dosbox to play them? You could always look up guides and from an internet search and try it, though you may face issues as a new user. Then again there's the option to buy the digital version as you mentioned.

Getting them to work might be possible. If you did it on windows, my suggestion is to use the same steps, and try to find repository/open source alternatives to the software you used in the process back then. If those exist you'll probably be able to get it to work in the same way. Then you can either use dosbox or one of its forks or use retroarch or even the windows one with proton if you have to.

Though I want to confirm, you did get it working on windows successfully right? Because you mentioned that you tried.

Sorry for the late reply. I did attempt to get it to work on windows 10. I wasnt successful but I also didnt really try. I'll have more time coming up soon to try it again. I'll give your suggestion a try tho